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Reddit is not asking for 70% of the income the rest of the Internet gets.
I've had these calls too, now and again but never had the patience to keep them on the line.

So , they want to install some kind of remote admin software on your PC? I'm going to assume it is something based on VNC or RDP.

In that case if you really wanted to troll them it might be fun to figure out which protocol it was using and implement a custom server that you can run when they call you.

Any fun ideas as to what that could do?
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Shaky self-promotion: Facebook’s cash-milking and vague 600m mobile monetization
I am in a way arguing semantics because I believe its confusing to non EE people reading this to use a term like 'phase cancellation' in a way that is very different from its usage in almost every other context. In general it refers to the sum of two waves equaling zero (or some reduced value), i.e. destructive interference. In this case the opposite is happening and the vocals are removed not due to a sum of the waves but rather a difference equating to zero.

Side note - welcome to hacker news! Assuming your the same kortuk from the EE stack exchange I believe we've interacted a few times. My account there is: http://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/1438/mark
Nah, not missing it. Well aware of it actually but that was not reported to us by Veeam, so instead of trying to fudge, we just stick to reporting for now.
What are they talking about other than netbot though?

Before netbot that did they ever talk about anything other than "When can we get a good native client"
Bootstrapped No More: 5 Questions with Dyn CEO Jeremy Hitchcock
My main problems with Bitcoin:

1. I don't deeply understand the maths behind it.

2. I don't know how vulnerable the entire Bitcoin infrastructure is to hacking, allowing someone to generate fake Bitcoins.

3. There seems to be no way to securely store BC's.

4. There is no governing body to resolve disputes or to enforce rules. (Yes I realize that to some extent this is also a strength)

5. It is the Wild West. There is no rule of law and the value of the Bitcoins are purely subjective. Better be wearing your Titanium Super Pants when "investing" in BC's.
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You mean like Section 508? That already the law of the land for government agencies (and, generally speaking, their contractors)
A good thing for them that sometimes people need to solve multiple problems at the same time.
Quantum Computing Firm D-Wave gets $30 Million Investment from Bezos and CIA
Doesn't work in Opera 12.
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Acer's $800, Ivy Bridge-toting Windows 8 tablet hits on October 26
Argentina reestructured its debts and it was a successful early 2000s campaign. These funds make money buying debt for pennies. They are similar in some way to patent trolls.

Not read this message as a support to the Argentinian government. What Argentina did with its debt is a case study.
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Depends on where you live - around Washington DC, it's Google Maps, OpenStreetMaps, Apple (at some distance below) and then a huge gap before Bing, Nokia and MapQuest round out the low end of the results.

I rather strongly suspect that the main consequences of Apple's move will be fragmentation as people adapt to the service which offers the best local coverage for them
But does it really matter that the students are not "American-born"?

If you're trying to talk about the impact of American universities on America's innovative capacity and America's economy, then yes, it matters how many students and graduates are American-born -- because only an extreme few of those immigrant students are getting Green Cards. It also matters to consider American-born students rather than all citizens and prospective citizens because we're trying to get an indication of what people think about the American labor market. The best way to measure that is to look at people who are confined to the American labor market.

If we had a "points-based" immigration system like Canada, say, I would be asking how many graduates are American citizens. But we don't. Most international students I met were planning on either going "back home" or rising through further academic degrees (ie: grad-school) in order to continue their visas long enough to at least try for a Green Card and/or American citizenship. The economic impact of the latter is limited to academia.... which gets us back to the very problem I've been trying to articulate: that academia (in the sense of teaching and research, not just university incomes or spending) has been killed off as a major economic engine in America.

http://infoproc.blogspot.co.il/2008/05/dont-become-scientist... -- here is our problem, described twice. American STEM innovation/research is a bad career path. That's the core problem, but people keep trying to fix it by... futzing around with the immigration laws so that America can exploit foreign labor and foreign investments in education and research training rather than having to pay for the innovators it supposedly wants.
You can use tiny modules like this with near reckless abandon in node. Due to the way node's require() works and the way the package manager installs modules locally by default (rather than system-wide), most of the FUD of using 3rd party modules in other environments simply doesn't apply in node.
BitCoin isn't a payments infrastructure. Rather, it's a set of primitives over which you can create one.

The same can be said of git w/r/t source code control systems.
Trade credit (I'll buy these hammers today, bill me next week) is somewhat different from credit cards. Credit cards are a financial tool to provide easy access to temporary funds, and are usually backed by banks, which have only existed for ~500 years. Trade credit is part of the give-and-take of relationships in that we recognize resource ticks aren't always synchronized.
It sounds like something most people figure out at some point in their teens, I wonder why he was asking.
Romney tries to Solyndraize Tesla Motors, calling it a 'loser'
I haven't gotten through the whole book, but it's also written in a style which makes it hard to immerse yourself in it. Characters aren't described in detail, major events are described in a few words, and entire lifetimes are glossed over... Certainly epic and at times quite beautiful, but completely different to LoTR.
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I took a class with Joe Hellerstein at Berkeley. This sounds awesome!
I've got quite a few friends in Zimbabawe and Tanzania that I talk with regularly on Facebook. and just last night we were talking about Myanmar connections who had added us. When I was traveling everybody wanted to link up on FB. One friend lives in Harare's ghetto Mbare and he mainly uses his mobile to post. And many many people use internet cafes all over the world if they don't have a computer.

And here's another vision for you: I was on the border of Zambia/Zimbabwe which is a refugee camp (known locally as Baghdad). This little 6 year old girl was running around playing in the back alley and she had a toy cell phone that she was pretending to talk into (sauntering and throwing her hair so I would notice). What do you think she's going to buy as soon as she can ? For many people its the first luxury they buy. Its communication, its their future.
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but wait, this doesn't get at having shift behave normally unless it is the only key that gets pressed. Does it?
It's really the contrast between these two comments that drove me to Python. Many things are possible with the web, yet I'm more interested in Machine Learning and development of applications for phones/computers/adruino/etc. So I gotta say that Python seems like the tool for me. I also love C and C++ so that might say a little more about what I like...
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When you say "we", I assume you mean the United States. There's already progress in that direction in other countries:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_accessibility#Legally_requi...

It's already a de facto requirement for anyone selling software to the government. When I was a PM at Microsoft working on Visio, I was surprised and amazed at how much time and energy went into accessibility of all the Office product. It's not easy to make a visual design program like Visio work well for the blind or visually impaired!
At least in the US, this already falls under Section 508 guidelines [1]. Most government web sites are already expected to follow this.

I wouldn't call it "catering" though, because often it doesn't involve anything more than semantic markup and avoiding exclusively mouse-driven navigation.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_508_Amendment_to_the_Re...
thanks for advertising your stupid A/B test tool and masquerading it as an article
"One of the newer groups under the accessibility umbrella, this group has become more vocal in the past few years. Those with dyslexia and ADD or ADHD have begun to press for a less busy Internet, one where ads don’t distract them to the point of being unable to use a site, or where proper contrast is used, rather than the more artistic combinations of light text against an only slightly lighter background."

IMO, browser makers failed us 15+ years ago by not making the ability to style/theme our sites more prominent as part of the UI. (and cookie management, but that's a different rant) The idea of using your own custom style sheets was always, at best, an extreme fringe feature. Yes, markup has to be 'right' for this to work, and browser makers catered to poor markup way too much in the early days. I'm not sure we can easily get out of it, but perhaps now... with a somewhat renewed focus on semantic markup and better CSS in browsers, we could encourage browsers to treat "user-specified" styling as a first class function of what it means to be a 'browser'?

Using Safari 5 right now, there's no option I can find to set a minimum font size. A 'default' font and size, yes, but that seems to be ignored or overwritten by every site I go to. It's 2012 and I still have to 'increase font size' on a number of sites I go to (and I know about keystrokes to do so - other people I know tend to just suffer with small fonts).
Well, I'm going to get into the work of a real life programmer in a year or so, finishing my degree.

Quite frankly, I wouldn't want to be sitting in front of a desktop for 33 years of my own life. Not to criticize you or anything.

But coding my entire life, just doesn't feel right, well as of today and the classic cubicle/desk/chair environnement, maybe I didn't pick the right job, it just feels like a very individualistic/selfish job unless maybe your stuff is open-sourced. How much do you feel you contribute to the society , for example ?

Then again, I'm just starting in the domain, talking from 1 year of work experience and 3 of school experience.
Agreed... I was in a rush to catch the train this morning and I didn't have chance to elaborate, I shouldn't do that.

However, my point was that most of the algorithms used on that link (ANN, SVM, etc) had similar expressive power (VC dimension) and had been proved to have similar performance between them in object recognition.

People normally take advantage on their specific properties rather than paying too much attention how well the algorithm would perform (since either SVM and ANN are expected to perform reasonably well). I still maintain my opinion that any difference in classification performance is more likely to be related to how the team managed the data instead of the chosen algorithm.

Deep convolutional learning is the difference here and indeed seems to be an interesting architecture which the current state of the art only support ANN. But that doesn't mean that somebody wouldn't come up with a strategy for deep learning on SVM or another classification technique in the future.
It raises awareness not because of the technical difficult of the feat, but rather the complete opposite.

Script kiddies are incredibly important to security. I don't want to push a slippery slope argument, but the term script kiddies implies someone with no special talents (merely the right commonly available tools). SQL injections are not technically difficult.

See the problem? If private information is being leaked, if servers are being breached, and it takes no special skills, and if these servers have been hacked for months, there's obviously a fundamental breakdown in the security chain of the organization. Security is not difficult, security is not something new, security is not something you can do without. In too many cases, it takes being hacked and dumped before an organization finally realizes the dangers they've created.

If you're yawning and cracking derisively at this, I have a feeling you might be someone who needs to read this kind of news story. It's better to have the wake-up call on your news reader than on your desk with your boss standing over you.
They have a logo, so I'm thinking it's final: http://www.rust-lang.org/
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How do I close my PayPal account?
In fairness that describes a lot of blog posts.
ANY merchant provider can hold funds up to 180 days for any reason in the US. It's not just paypal that does that.
"Visualizing English Text" seems more accurate a title. Cute process, but the result is entirely generic.
I ran into an even worse Apple problem: addresses with fractions will be parsed after the / - e.g. 1234 1/2 6th Street will be displayed at the correct location for "2 6th Street"! (Interestingly, Yelp displayed that restaurant correctly using the iOS 6 map widget so they appear to do their own geocoding)

That said, I've also found multiple cases where Apple is better: e.g. around here there's a diner chain with 5 locations. Searching for their name with Google Maps on iOS 5 or maps.google.com will show only one hit 20 miles away for their business office. iOS correctly finds the actual restaurants and the first hit is the one 5 miles away.

From my perspective, it felt like Google Maps got much worse about a year ago – but mostly on mobile.
Apple offered patent licensing deal to Samsung before trial
I have a one man company and so far, I am paying or would gladly pay for the following on a monthly basis

- Payroll processing fee (through my bank but they use Intuit)

- Freshbooks for invoicing (free for me since < 3 clients but would gladly pay if needed)

- Wave Accounting software for small business. This one is still not quite there in my opinion. I am using it so far because it is free but not the best. Quickbooks scares the heck out of me (too bloated for my needs).
Applingua giving away localized German OS X app menu item terms
So how did you get to fifty without burning out? The advice I've always seen is a mix of: have a healthy work/life balance, exercise, find satisfaction outside of work, enjoy people more than products, and make sure you actually like what you do and where you do it. Anything else?
The Yahoo uniques are not all authenticated users, so this is a very different comparison. Facebook is counting only people who have registered for an account, logged in, and then did something.
I wonder why they are not also targeting Macs?

I guess they are trying to get money out of people and Mac users probably have more money (on a broad average).

I suppose they say they are calling from "Windows Support" but would it be a far stretch to also claim to represent someone from Apple? Or put someone else on the line under the premise of transferring you to Apple.
There is nothing wrong with email verification. There is something wrong with hiding what is going on from the user. If you try to "secure" your site from people finding out if a particular email is registered, you end up with a massive increase in login failures, which was the point being made. You also make it so that when I say "I forgot my password" and fill in the wrong email address, I am sitting and waiting for a password reset email that never comes. Every portion of the account handling process is made significantly worse by trying to hide account info, and there is absolutely no benefit to doing so.
Grip UI may be the cure for huge smartphones
You sound like a confused nigger FBI guy.

"Window Manager" is the task that moves windows around when you mouse drag on the borders. It does a lot of thing.

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I've used it extensively as an employer. I've found a few real gems that I would love to hire full-time someday, but lately I've been having a very hard time finding quality talent. I've had four hires in a row that accepted the job and then completely dropped off the face of the earth afterwards.

I've also run into quite a few contractors who lie about their skill set--hoping, I assume, to get ANY kind of work and then learn it as they go. It makes ramping someone up kind of frustrating... but once you find someone good to work with I've had nothing bad to say about it.
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It seems to me that the best idea would be for credit card companies to issue "Fraud" cc numbers to certain groups of people.

Once a few these are processed, that merchant account can be shut down... it's a fraud.
Yeah, 3 middle men between third world and Oracle - the meta-model of current IT business,) and $5/h - $25/h is also telling.)

Self-proclaimed manager's dream.
Because they own Navteq
"Why dont tech companies use this method and why do they need VC funding instead"

Banks do not have as much vested interest in a startup as VCs. So their risk appetite is much lower than VCs. VCs lend money based on future potential of making it big and they take a lot more risk than a usual lender/bank.

Thats just the money part. VCs always provide a network of connections and key contact (mostly) who can also help your startup. Good VCs will provide mentorship and valuable help.
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This may happen in bits and pieces. Online media companies are adding subtitles to their videos in response to a one-off FCC ruling:

http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/03/amazon-quietly-begins-the-l...

Changes to the law seem unlikely given the dysfunction in Congress now and in the foreseeable future. Hence, we may end up with a regulatory patchwork quilt made up of rulings like this one.
> Mac users probably have more money (on a broad average).

I sadly suspect this is part of the reason. They have more money and chose a Mac because they are educated and can get a decent salary and mentally independent enough to make a conscious purchasing decision.

If you just obediently go with what the trustworthy computer salesman pushes at you, you end up with a Windows computer. And obedient trusting people are what the scammers want to target.
>Why not do those things anyways?

Priorities and time. The OP might be quite comfortable and happy with his current physicality, so he's not interested in investing the time getting thinner "just because". However, he might be highly dedicated towards creating a profitable business. And if being thinner is something that might provide an advantage to that end, then it's worth prioritizing and making the time to do so.
Now you just need to track upvotes on hn ;)
Not quite the same, but I was on the phone to BT (British ISP) a couple of years ago as my internet was down yet again, and they were telling me to reboot my router. I'd already does as much diagnosing myself as possible, and completely knew rebooting my router would do nothing, but of course they wouldn't budge. I was in a pretty bad mood at them, so I said I'd put them on hold to go do it, then I went and had a bath. Twenty-five minutes later they were still on the line, and I got back and said "OK it's rebooted, still not working" and the call went on...
Good idea, but I assume whatever merchant they are using is getting charge backs all the time so they probably know who they are.

That's assuming they are even using a legit merchant account as opposed to just stealing numbers which are exploited in some other way.
>> But coding my entire life

What about a brick layer, painter, electrician, school teacher, is there anything wrong with those people if they enjoy their work and dedicate their work passions to those professions?

>> How much do you feel you contribute to the society

Society doesn't pay the bills, companies do. Society is appreciating art, going dancing or having a barbecue.
Hi author, I really liked the visualisations, especially the black hole thing.

I think I may have misunderstood the purpose of your article: I first read it as a serious attempt to use textual analysis to do a comparison of the comprehensibility of Tolkein's best-known works, in which case you fell way short of the mark by going no further than word counting. I think it started off like that, but on re-reading it I see that you say you hit a brick wall (paraphrasing) and decided to have some fun visualising your results so far; something you did very nicely. So perhaps I got the wrong end of the stick.

I thought about what you've taken on here. Doing things at the word level is pretty easy. Taking into account grammatical structure to get things like sentence lengths and clauses per sentence, or breaking words up into syllables (needed for F-K, for example) is considerably harder. I'm interested to hear what you come up with. Flesch & Flesch-Kincaid are US inventions so perhaps not obvious to everyone.

On he/she: I agonised over that for a good ten minutes over my breakfast. I read around your blog and your twitter page this morning for clues as to the appropriate pronoun. In the end I couldn't tell, so I went with 'he' because I stereotyped you. I nearly changed my wording to use constructions like "the author," "they," and various other mealy-mouthed alternatives but they were too ugly. So I did try, but I got it wrong. I apologise.
Technical or non-technical, it is just hard to find a co-founder. Heck, it is just hard to find any kind of partner.
It's called compulsive highlighter:

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What about disabled employees? Do employee handbooks and HR materials have to be accessible to the visually impaired, for example?
In my experience, HR departments for some companies do have this kind of material. However, the hiring processes for many places are inaccessible to people with certain kinds of disabilities, so they are not likely to even make it to interview stages of hiring.
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Could you be a little more precise?
I understand the geek/social effect of saying that you work for Apple or any other well perceived company, but get real: you're no changing the world. You would change the world if you were one of the first few employees at Apple, or nowadays if you are a high ranking executive/manager. Other than that, you're just a small piece in the engine. Maybe an independent developer is doing more to change the world than an employee at Apple.
Hogwash. If you can't do something at a sustainable pace, you can't do it at all.

In startup environments crunch time has a nasty tendency of becoming normal time, and you get nosediving morale, massively increased attrition, and lower overall productivity. It's lose-lose all around.

So sure, in a startup you'd expect some late nights. When late nights become the norm though, you are now officially in dysfunctional company territory - don't let naive founders with rainbows and unicorns in their eyes convince you otherwise. Very sick of this Valley attitude that you must push yourself to the very edge of death-by-exhaustion to achieve anything worthwhile.